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GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0
Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases ...
2024-11-06 16:22
Fresh Take On Linux Uncached Buffered I/O "RWF_UNCACHED" Nets 65~75% Improvement
Linux I/O expert and block/IO_uring maintainer Jens Axboe of Meta has recently revisited his patches around uncached buffered I/O. Back in 2019 the "RWF_UNCACHED" effort was started by Axboe to address a throughput cliff in performance once the page ca...
2024-11-06 15:02
systemd 257-rc1 Released With A Ton Of New Features & Changes
Systemd 257-rc1 is out today as a big feature update for this release that brings many new features and other refinements to this key piece of the Linux operating system stack...
2024-11-06 12:47
Designing Canonicals Figma libraries for performance and structure
How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.
2024-11-06 10:53
Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure
How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.
2024-11-06 10:53
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache
Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under U...
2024-11-06 09:00
Intel Prepping Linux For SNC6 With Six Nodes Per L3 Cache
Patches for the Linux kernel over the past week are preparing for an SNC6 sub-NUMA clustering mode. This is the first time I've seen patches or mentions of an SNC6 mode compared to SNC 1/2/3/4 modes with existing processors...
2024-11-06 08:30
Charmed MySQL enters General Availability
Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your MySQL databases across private and public clouds. MySQL is one of the wo...
2024-11-06 08:02
Fedora x FOSDEM ’25 – Paging Distro Devroom
It’s almost time for the Linux Distributions DevRoom at FOSDEM again! Let’s dive into what we’d like to see and how you can get involved! Submit your talk to FOSDEM, when you’re ready! Read on for further information. What is the Distributions ...
2024-11-06 08:00
Fedora × FOSDEM 2025: Paging Distributions DevRoom
It’s almost time for the Linux Distributions DevRoom at FOSDEM again! The Distributions DevRoom is officially accepted as a full-day FOSDEM DevRoom on Sunday, 2 February 2025. Let’s dive into what we would like to see and how you can get involved! ...
2024-11-06 08:00
Meet Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
We are ready to connect with the pioneers of open-source innovation! Canonical, the force behind Ubuntu, is returning as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.  This premier event, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundatio...
2024-11-06 07:00
Mesa 24.3 Delivers Big Performance Win For Aging AMD Navi 10 GPUs
The upcoming Mesa 24.3 graphics driver stack will deliver a very nice performance win with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver for aging RDNA1 "GFX10" graphics processors...
2024-11-06 06:56
Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" Slated To Land In Linux 6.13
Yet another exciting feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is the introduction of the Lazy Preemption model...
2024-11-06 06:23
cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support
The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variety of network protocols for file transfers. Most notable with cURL 8.11 is sporting official WebSockets su...
2024-11-06 06:09
Intel oneCCL 2021.14 Brings New Performance & Scalability Optimizations
Intel's oneCCL open-source software that is the oneAPI Collective Communications Library focused on providing an efficient implementation of deep learning communication patterns is out with a new release...
2024-11-06 05:59
Mozilla Foundation Axes 30% Staff, Axes Advocacy Division
Sweeping staffing cuts have fallen at The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Mozilla tasked with advocating for web standards, internet privacy, and open-source. A huge 30% reduction in head count at the foundation cleaves away the entirety of th...
2024-11-06 01:57
Mozilla Foundation Axes 30% of Staff, Advocacy Division
Sweeping staffing cuts have fallen at The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Mozilla tasked with advocating for web standards, internet privacy, and open-source. A huge 30% reduction in head count at the foundation cleaves away the entirety of th...
2024-11-06 01:57
Mozilla Foundation Cuts 30% of Staff, Axes Advocacy Division
Sweeping staffing cuts have fallen at The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Mozilla tasked with advocating for web standards, internet privacy, and open-source. A huge 30% reduction in head count at the foundation cleaves away the entirety of th...
2024-11-06 01:57
GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate is Ready for Testing
If it feels like the next major release of open source image editor The GIMP has been in the works forever, know that anticipation for its arrival has been building longer still – yet the wait will soon be over. Today, a GIMP 3.0 release candidate wa...
2024-11-05 23:40
GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Arrives with Major Features in Tow
If it feels like the next major release of open source image editor The GIMP has been in the works forever, know that anticipation for its arrival has been building longer still – yet the wait will soon be over. Today, a GIMP 3.0 release candidate wa...
2024-11-05 23:40